fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans [Wednesday mid-morning]

Good morning, everyone! The sun was shining, the weather was getting pleasantly warm and Anakin had set himself up in the park with a bullhorn and a bunch of giant plastic storage containers full of liquids. Ice water, orange soda, chocolate pudding, the leftover slime...

Surely this will end well for everybody!

"Today you will participate in the ten toes challenge!" Anakin announced. "Working in teams, you will lay on your backs and balance these containers on your socked feet. Then, going in a circle, you must each take off one sock, then the other, without tipping the liquid onto yourselves. It's about teamwork!"

And gravity. And Anakin's personal amusement.

"Come down when I call your name and get your team socks!" He grinned. "Oh, and no powers, please. That takes away the fun."

The fun for the audience.

TEAM SMILEY TOE SOCKS
Sam
Steph
Henry
Luma
Gray

TEAM CAT FEET
Steve R
Jonathan
Jaina
Arden
Quinn

TEAM SHARKS
Stewart
Raiden
Hannibal
Eleanor
Rey

TEAM SANDALS
Lydia
Belle
Remy
Flint
Vi

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Why were Steph's feet looking at her? Vi did her best not to look back. "The cat ones are cute too," she said, trying to focus on something less terrifying.

"Careful, put those on and Saffron might try to pick you up by the scruff of your neck and hide you in the storage room again," Steph replied.

It must be noted that she was pointedly not looking down at her own feet.

And no one would blame her.

"I'm definitely not planning on having Saffron bite my neck," Vi said grinning at her.

"Saffron cares not what your plans are, human," Steph replied, shaking her head indulgently. "And I don't know if I want to assume she'd change her mind just because you're normal sized."

She assumed an innocent expression. "So, no neck bites? Noted."

"She'll have a lot more trouble dragging me off when she's a fraction of my size," Vi pointed out.

"None from Saffron," she made sure to emphasise the name. "I'm very particular about who gets to do that.

"Do you think that'll discourage her? She's a cat." Judging from the look on Steph's face, she doubted it.

She grinned. "Oh, just from Saffron. I was worried there for a second."

No, she hadn't been.

Vi grinned and fluttered her lashes at Steph. "I'm sure you'll rescue me like always."

"No you weren't," she replied, just so happening to stretch her neck as she did so, displaying her tattoo to best effect.

"Mean," Steph grumbled, staring at said tattoo. "See if I rescue you now."

"Are you saying you'd leave me in Saffron's clutches?" Vi asked, adding in big, sad eyes to the neck stretching.

Oh, no.

"I'm saying you're perfectly capable of rescuing yourself," Steph argued, somewhat less convincingly. "I have faith in you! Isn't that good?"

OF course Vi could rescue herself from Saffron, that wasn't the point.

Vi just made her big, sad eyes even bigger and sadder.

"You would turn the big sad eyes on me?" Steph asked, putting a hand to her chest as if mortally wounded. "On me?"

See if she didn't sad-puppy-eyes right back at you, Vi.

"I would," Vi said, sounding incredibly hurt that Steph would attempt to give her a taste of her own medicine.

"I am shocked," Steph said dramatically, not letting up with her own big sad eyes at all. "Clearly the idea of me not rescuing you from our cat has you all out of sorts, and that won't do, will it?"

"I’m inconsolable," Vi informed Steph. Very, very seriously.

"That is unacceptable," Steph replied just as seriously. "Completely and totally unacceptable. I guess I'll just have to promise to rescue you like I was always planning to do anyway, huh?"

God, she was such a pushover where Vi was concerned.

"Really?" The puppy eyes vanished in an instant as Vi fluttered her lashes at Steph. "However will I repay you?"

"You'll think of something," Steph said, reaching over to pat her arm as she shook her head in amusement. "Surprise me."

Vi grinned and reached for her hand. "I will," she promised her.

Steph let Vi have her hand, only to squeeze it and pull it up to her mouth for a kiss.

"Looking forward to it, after this clownery is done."

She said, like they didn't keep letting themselves get dragged into it over and over.

Vi couldn't help it, she was possessed of the urge to show off for her girl. "I'm sure we'll figure out something to do with ourselves."

Despite the fact that more often than not, there was no dignity in the showing off that happened here.

"From previous experience, a shower will definitely be in our near future, for starters," Steph decided.

"I like the sound of that." Though she was picturing a much sexier shower than they would be having.

"The more you can avoid getting hit by whatever liquid hell is in those containers, the nicer it'll actually be," Steph said with a laugh, squeezing Vi's hand again. "Then we order in something nice for dinner maybe?"

Thanks for nothing, Remy.

"And have something really nice for dessert."

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